I love those boats. Awesome speed and comfort and compact.

If I were you I'd try a X-Power design drive. Very efficient, only 11.5HP parasitic loss at those revs - and strong as hell.

If you ran a 16 degree rake prop, will it force the nose down too much and slow you down?

Any pictures of transom and drive set up,again what changes did you make to drive if any?

impressive!!!!

how's the blue/white/grey 26 from near me doing???? few changes on it too.

any new info on the 30?

Thanks, I've corrected it. If you want to be persnickety, capitalize the first letter in a sentence...and I think you mean "Alot"..unless you speak in ebonics.:drink: lol

KILLER!

Man, that thing pulls hard!!!!

I have not got a ride in one yet...there is one here in Louisiana that I've gotten to take a close look at...cleanest neatest bildge of any builder out there IMO...look at the new red one listed...it has a built in blower vent...no black or white blower hose...top notch rigging all the way around and the performance speaks for itself... someone throw down the money for the 30....it'd have to be one of the best 30's ever if the 26 is any indecision of what they can do!

Thanks for the compliments. The X-Power is a nice drive. Very expensive though. I actually helped a friend of mine set one up a couple years ago. Would love to try one but don't want to spend the coin to TRY it.

As far as the 16 degree rake, with less power the 16 degree does not carry the nose very well. On this boat, the 16 degree will lift the tail so bad that it actually plants the left sponson in the water up to around 100 then it starts to carry the nose. It runs decent but is quite a ride, especially once you get off the throttle. The 16 degree will make the boat skate around a lot on decell.

IMCO added a leading edge extension to the skeg and then blueprinted the lower similar to what Wilson does. The leading edge addition was actually developed by Brad Stewart at E-Ticket to help stabilize the SCX4 on twin engine applications. With the leading edge, we are able to run with less torque tab. We then spent about 10 hours massaging the skeg and are able to run without any torque tab at all. Prior to these changes, we had to run a ton of torque tab to prevent prop blowout and the boat would only run 135.

We still have some work to do on the skeg. Fairly certain that we will get 145-147 out of it on pump gas.

I will try to post some pics of the transom and lower unit before and after later today or over the weekend.

Absolutely love it. Dying for one of these as an LG boat someday. Be a cool rocketship with one of our 700s in it....Prop it to accelerate and have a nice 110 mph missile.

I remember playing w/props on my first 100 MPH boat. Like most, I was only after WFO #'s.
I ran from 22's to 32's and validated what a really smart guy once told me."The rig will want what it want's and more pitch doesn't necessarily mean more speed".
Ended up, 3 MPH's covered from the 26 to 32 but the 26 was an absolute blast to drive!

Most have no idea.
I never lost a race in that boat when going from a 30/40 roll and taught me a great lesson.

I like your thinking ;)